중등학교 교육실습 운영 현황 분석 - 교육실습 개선을 위한 시사점 -

Abstract

Based on a survey method, this study attempts to illuminate how teaching practicum is being conducted in undergraduate, secondary pre-service teacher education programs, and to suggest both effective and sustainable ways of teaching practicum which will ultimately contribute to the desirable of pre-service teacher education and teaching expertise. For this purpose this study focused on the responses of 60 Department Heads of Research (who are in charge of planning and administering teaching practicum) selected from major cities and provinces by using the stratified sampling method. By analyzing those teachers’responses on questionnaires, it was the researchers’s main goal to highlight the facts and problems of teaching practicum. In conclusion, this study found that, in contrast with the long-standing ideal belief about the practice of teaching practicum, the local version of teaching practicum in reality turned out to be a laissez-faire one, where the quality of teaching practicum largely hinged upon that of an individual cooperating teacher or that of an individual school. Major findings of the research suggest that, in order to restore the nature of teaching practicum and to promote collegial relationships between the universities and the secondary schools, the Ministry of Education should need to refine both the national mandates for teaching practicum and the teacher licensure system, and to develop the incentive system for cooperating teachers.